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You have almost exterminated our people but there are enough of us remaining to expose the humbug of your claim, as white Australians, to be a civilised, progressive, liberal and humane nation.
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The speaker says that white Australians have nearly destroyed their people, but that survivors remain to challenge Australia’s self-image as civilised, progressive, liberal and humane. “Humbug” means this public claim is being called false or hypocritical. The sentence is therefore both an accusation of extermination and a rejection of those national qualities.
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